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Lorraine Hansberry

Born

in Chicago, Illinois, The United States

May 19, 1930

Died

January 12, 1965

Genre

Theater, Memoir

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People know American playwright Lorraine Vivian Hansberry for her play A Raisin in the Sun (1959).

This writer inspired "To Be Young, Gifted and Black," song of Nina Simone.

She, the first such Black woman, wrote a play, performed on Broadway. Her best known work highlights the lives of Blacks under racial segregation in Chicago. Family of the author struggled against segregation, challenging a restrictive covenant and eventually provoking the Supreme Court case Hansberry v. Lee. The title of the play was taken from the poem "Harlem" by Langston Hughes: "What happens to a dream deferred? Does it dry up like a raisin in the sun?"

Hansberry moved to city of New York and afterward worked at the pan-Africanist newspaper Freedom, where she dea ...more

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Lorraine Hansberry’s books

Average rating: 3.86 · 95,238 ratings · 4,888 reviews · 53 distinct works • Similar authors

	A Raisin in the Sun 3.84 avg rating — 89,990 ratings — published 1959 — 122 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	To Be Young, Gifted, and Black: An Informal Autobiography by Lorraine Hansberry, Robert Nemiroff (Adapted by), James Baldwin (Introduction) 4.42 avg rating — 2,738 ratings — published 1969 — 40 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	A Raisin in the Sun and The Sign in Sidney Brustein's Window 3.88 avg rating — 911 ratings — published 1966 — 10 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	A Raisin in the Sun: The Unfilmed Original Screenplay by Lorraine Hansberry, Spike Lee (Commentary), Margaret B. Wilkerson (Introduction) 3.77 avg rating — 832 ratings — published 1992 — 17 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Sign In Sidney Brustein's Window 3.84 avg rating — 264 ratings — published 1965 — 14 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Movement: Documentary of a Struggle for Equality 4.66 avg rating — 32 ratings — published 1964 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Lorraine Hansberry Audio Collection CD: Raisin in the Sun, To be Young, Gifted and Black and Lorraine Hansberry Speaks Out 4.57 avg rating — 23 ratings — published 2001 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	What Use are Flowers? 3.84 avg rating — 19 ratings — published 1969	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	A Raisin in the Sun Study Guide 4.44 avg rating — 16 ratings — published 2003	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Anticipation of Eve 4.25 avg rating — 4 ratings — published 1958 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Quotes by Lorraine Hansberry (?)

“The thing that makes you exceptional, if you are at all, is inevitably that which must also make you lonely.”
― Lorraine Hansberry

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“Never be afraid to sit awhile and think.”
― Lorraine Hansberry

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“There is always something left to love. And if you ain’t learned that, you ain’t learned nothing.”
― Lorraine Hansberry

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Polls

November 2015 New School Classics Group Read

1982, Schindler's List by Thomas Keneally, 429 pages

25 votes, 17.4%

1988, Matilda by Roald Dahl, 240 pages

24 votes, 16.7%

1997, Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur Golden, 434 pages

16 votes, 11.1%

1930, As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner, 267 pages

14 votes, 9.7%

1988, The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho, 197 pages

13 votes, 9.0%

1987, Beloved by Toni Morrison, 324 pages

11 votes, 7.6%

1932, Cold Comfort Farm by Stella Gibbons, 233 pages

8 votes, 5.6%

1957, The Baron in the Trees by Italo Calvino, 217 pages

7 votes, 4.9%

1989, The Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan, 288 pages

6 votes, 4.2%

1959, A Raisin in the Sun by Lorraine Hansberry, 160 pages

5 votes, 3.5%

1940, The Power and the Glory by Graham Greene, 222 pages

4 votes, 2.8%

1949, The Sheltering Sky by Paul Bowles, 342 pages

3 votes, 2.1%

1932, The Radetzky March by Joseph Roth, 352 pages

3 votes, 2.1%

1928, Quicksand by Nella Larsen, 192 pages

2 votes, 1.4%

1939, Johnny Got His Gun by Dalton Trumbo, 243 pages

2 votes, 1.4%

1931, The Road Back by Erich Maria Remarque, 352 pages

1 vote, 0.7%

1997, Out by Natsuo Kirino, 400 pages

0 votes, 0.0%

1974, Pilgrim at Tinker Creek by Annie Dillard, 288 pages

0 votes, 0.0%

144 total votes

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